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Nuclear launch console.

Hot-button campaign issue: 2020 Democrats disagree on nuclear launch authority

By John Krzyzaniak | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

Vladimir Putin

Russia killed arms control. Why does it want to keep New START?

By Kristin Ven Bruusgaard | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

National security journalist Fred Kaplan

Interview: Trump’s nuclear insecurities and other secrets from the author of “The Bomb”

By Dawn Stover | Interviews, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

UN Security Council meeting

The US has a backup plan to kill the Iran nuclear deal. It could spark a crisis at the UN.

By Julia Masterson, Samuel M. Hickey | Analysis, Nuclear Risk

Shipping container with radioactive material

Nuclear terrorism: US officials say it’s best to plan for the worst

By Jay A. Tilden, Dallas Boyd | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

Mohammad Javad Zarif, in 2019

Iran’s impending exit from the NPT: A new nuclear crisis

By Kaveh L. Afrasiabi, Nader Entessar | Nuclear Risk, Opinion

glass of scotch whisky

Nuclear science reveals sobering truth about faked Scotch whisky

By John Mecklin | Analysis, Nuclear Risk

Workers at the Pantex Plant in Texas handle a nuclear warhead.

The low-yield nuclear warhead: A dangerous weapon based on bad strategic thinking

By Andrew Facini | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

Excerpt from Albert Einstein letter, Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists, December 1946

Physicists mobilize to reduce the nuclear threat. Again.

By Stewart Prager, Steve Fetter, Alexander Glaser, Zia Mian, Frank von Hippel | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Memo to Mr. Trump: This nuclear treaty with Russia will make you a winner!

By John Krzyzaniak | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

January 2020 Bulletin Atomic Scientists magazine cover president democrat republican nuclear policy debate

Latest issue: Nuclear weapons policy and the US presidential election

By | Announcement, Nuclear Risk, Special Topics

Australia’s “firenadoes” summon images of Hiroshima, atomic bombs

By Dawn Stover | Climate Change, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons